Dwight Jeffrey Loving (born c. 1968) was one of six US military personnel on death row until Barack Obama commuted his sentence to life without parole on January 17, 2017.
Loving, a private in the United States Army, was sentenced to death following his conviction for murdering two soldiers, working as part-time taxi drivers on December 24, 1988.
The court-martial evidence, which included Loving's undisputed videotaped confession, established that the first robbery and murder victim, Pvt.
The second cab, driven by retired Army Sergeant Bobby Sharbino, 44, drove Loving from Fort Hood to a secluded street in Killeen.
The next day, a Joint Task Force composed of FBI, Texas Rangers and the US Army Criminal Investigation Division (USACIDC) agents pursued Loving.
Loving's attorneys had contended that the doctrine of separation of powers allowed only Congress rather than the President to define the "aggravating factors" that weighed in his sentencing.
[9] On January 17, 2017, three days before leaving office, Obama commuted Loving's death sentence to life imprisonment without parole, "on the condition that Loving shall never have any rights, privileges, claims or benefits arising under the parole and suspension or remission of sentence laws of the United States and the regulations promulgated thereunder governing federal prisoners confined in any penal institution.